P: Stroke automatically closes on layer with multiple open subpaths

Hi there, Chris, Jeffrey and all,
I tried to use the freeform pen tool in Photoshop and stumbled on the same problem. I supposed there would be some kind of bug or feature request, so I'm mostly adding one voice here.

Top left, green shape, open stroke, nice, big improvement, since cs6, way better than layer style strokes, thank you.

Bottom left, purple shapes : can't have an open stroked path if I have more than 1 path on the layer

Right, yellow shapes : I wanted to draw hatches with the freeform tool, and can't. Easily scalable, editable directly in Photoshop at any moment (no back and forth with Illustrator needed...

Is there more that I could do to push this in the front scene ?

This is still an issue in CC. +1'd for a fix. *fingers crossed* for now i will just bloat my psd with path layers!

This still seems to be an issue in CC 2014... Really could do with a fix, creating simple non-destructive lines using the correct dialog (NOT blending options) seems like a no-brainer.

Just to clarify, a single line can be drawn. Adding any more lines to a single shape layer causes the ends to join up AND intersect each other.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6...

UGH! I just got bit by this coiled rattler of a bug. Trying to create some complicated ornate "shapes" and need open paths to STAY OPEN! Instead I get these uninvited edges trying to close everything in. Gonna be a nightmare to have every path on its own layer, but that seems to be the only workaround I could find and echoed here as well. PLEASE roll this in with CS7. As a previous poster said, once legacy bugs get passed over and seems much more difficult to get them addressed. Thanks for your support on this issue.

- DK

Definitely need this fixed for the complete path to happiness.

So the bug is acknowledged but it's not fixed.

I sometimes understand that a bug becomes a "legacy behavior" for backwards compatibility, but you JUST introduced this feature. If you don't fix this now, it'll only become harder to fix it. 10 major versions 15 years later Photoshop will still be unable to render open paths correctly.

And this is how good products become horrible products, cough and die.

Please tell me you'll fix this in CS6.

This is not about the fill, it's about the stroke.

If you read the discussion you'll see that it happens when fill is NONE, but you need two or more path components per shape layer in order to reproduce the bug.