HI,
I've recently created this simple tool 'oralayerextractor'
It is basically a counterpart to MyPaint's 'Multiple PNG' export. Where
Multiple PNG export creates N files of the same size (image size),
oralayerextractor creates N files each with the size of the individual
layers.

I created this script because I tend to make many quick drawings side by
side, each on their own layer. Naturally, this results in a very wide
canvas, only a tiny amount of which has content (on any given layer).
For example:

http://imgur.com/a/T705w

This is very wasteful for the type of files I want -- each file would be
huge, and I would have to run autocrop on each to reduce it to a viewable
size. Also, I would lose the description contained in the layer name.

Oralayerextractor, by contrast, extracts each layer with a size matching
the layer content and a filename matching the layer name. It also provides
a few options that improve viewability (adding a border/padding around the
image, flattening the image onto a background color):

http://imgur.com/a/NTb4y

I have just published this tool on github at:

https://github.com/0ion9/arttools

I hope to hear your comments on it, and whether there is a need to
incorporate some of this functionality into MyPaint's export.
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