README
======

Guillotine-into-Layers v0.1
Copyright (C) 2009 Randall Sawyer <srandallsawyer@gmail.com>

Short description:
The Guillotine-into-Layers plug-in is a variation on the Guillotine plug-in by Adam D. Moss.  It is intended to address a shortcoming of the original.

Advantages:
When the Guillotine plug-in slices the original image along guides, it spawns a number of new images - each in its own window.  The problem with this is that these often numerous windows clutter that desktop and bog down the processor.  The Guillotine-into-Layers plug-in also slices the original image along guides;  however, instead of spawning many new images, it makes only one new image with multiple layers - one layer for each rectangular region.  The user can then selectively copy a single layer from this new image, and paste it as a new image, giving the user greater control.  Furthermore, the new image is named with the *.xcf file suffix.  That way, if the user needs to stop processing the layers of the new image before s/he is done, then s/he can simply save the new image in the GIMP's native format (*.xcf) - which preserves multiple layers.

The trade-off:
When the original Guillotine plug-in slices an image, each new image has the same number of layers as the original, each copied from the same rectangular region.  On the other hand, the Guillotine-into-Layers plug-in performs a copy-visible-layers action over each region to produce a new layer for the resulting image - implicitly merging the original layers.

LICENSE
-------

Distributed under the General Public License v3. See the file 'COPYING' read the license.

INSTALLATION
------------

See the file 'INSTALLATION'.

USAGE
-----
Interactive:  Once installed, the plug-in's menu item appears in the menu "<Image>"/Image/Transform".

Accès : Après avoir créé un ou plusieurs guides sur une image accès par Image > Transformer > Guillotine into layers
( Merci, samj! )

Non-interactive:
  (Linux):    The plug-in's executable file name is 'guillotine-into-layers'.
  (Windows):  The plug-in's executable file name is 'guillotine_into_layers.exe'.

Eine deutsche Beschreibung von Guillotine-into-Layers findet ihr hier:
http://www.gimp-atelier.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8056#p8056
( Danke, Avarra! )
