Autocrop all layers

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4757

Rod wrote:

AWESOME works perfect ofnuts! Even with 4 layers of content they autocrop very nicely.

Besides the Hello script that has got to be the smallest Python script i have seen to date.

Could you tell me how to edit the script if i wanted all the layers to become unlinked after the cropping takes effect?

Python can be quite terse, and the object classes defined by the python-fu interface are well done. I've yet to find a real-life case where Scheme is more suitable than Python for Gimp scripts.

For your request, just add the line "layer.linked=False" as below. Pay attention to the indenting, python is very fussy, indenting should be consistent (tabs and spaces are different, and I use tabs).

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def autocropLinkedLayers(image,drawable):
   for layer in image.layers:
      if layer.linked:
         print 'Autocropping layer %s' % layer.name
         pdb.gimp_image_set_active_layer(image, layer)
         pdb.plug_in_autocrop_layer(image, layer)
         layer.linked=False

paynekj · **Posted:** Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:37 am **(#22)**

I reckon it should be even shorter

Does the print statement produce any output on Linux? because on Windows it doesn't produce visible output anywhere and caused errors in your random-ellipses script: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1790

The only advantage Scheme has over Python is that everyone with GIMP has it and doesn't need to install additional software.

Kevin

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4757

The print statement shows output in a terminal session if you started Gimp that way, and likely in gimp-console. Otherwise it's ignored. This is not the gimp_message() that produces a error message box that has to be acknowledged by the user.

gerard82 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:32 pm **(#24)**

@paynejk,
Linux can't run w/o python.
It's used extensively.
Gerard.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14715 **Location:** USA

Yeah it's us poor windows users that must suffer :lol

ofnuts i added the line and the splash screen shows it loading then no menu item.
I can live with just hitting shift and unlink.I probably indented the line incorrectly.
Thanks for the script you produced though it will save me loads of time.

paynekj · **Posted:** Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:48 pm **(#26)**

@Rod
You probably need to know that ofnuts uses tab characters to do his indenting rather than space characters and tabs are interpreted differently (and displayed differently in various editors)

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