[Gimp-user] why autocrop layer would not cut all the blanks?

[programmer_ceds <forums gimpusers com>]

To answer your third question, there are a number of scripts that will draw
arrows, one of which is described at:

http://registry.gimp.org/node/28566

The script itself can be downloaded from:

http://www.programmer97.talktalk.net/Files/arrow.zip

The arrows are drawn in the currently selected foreground colour.

> Three questions, 
>
>
> (1) can I group the layers together and then request autocrop? right
> now, I seem to have to merge layers to be one to request autocrop. But
> that prevents me from the ability to do changes as needed.
>
>
> (2) After I merge to just a single layer, it seems autocrop can crop
> the upper and bottom whites well, but not the left and right white, do
> you see the same thing or any wrong I did?
>
>
> (3) It seems gimp does not provide convenient tools like arrow etc, so
> I basically copy/paste the arrows from powerpoint here, the issue is,
> it seems the color cannot be copied. Is there way to deal with that?
>
>
> Still a quite newbie, thanks for your kind help!

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