Un-close pasted path

[Ghoul Fool]

I've got a pattern of abstract paths in Photoshop that I've pasted into Illustrator. So far so good. However, both programs have a habit of automatically closing shapes.

 In Illustrator, the shape (see bleow) is automatically closed (whereas the left hand side should be open).

In order to fix this I'm currently having to locate each shape, direct selection of each point, cut it, paste it in place and then re-apply stroke to it. Like the shape as I want it!

This process is fine for a couple, but really rather long winded for hundreds of shapes. 

Is there an easy/faster/better/cheaper way of solving this? What have I missed?

As always, answers on a postcard...

[Monika Gause]

How do these shapes exist in your Photoshop file? Are they shape layers? Just paths in the Paths panel?

[Ghoul Fool]

Just a vaniall paths from path panel. Not a shape or a Shape in the path panel.

[Monika Gause]

I have just tried pasting multiple open paths from Photoshop into Illustrator and didn't have issues. They stayed open.

[Ghoul Fool]

You're kinda missing the point here.

[Monika Gause]

Can you please point out in which way I missed the point?

I tried out your workflow in the way you described it. If that is not what you are doing (copy-paste), then please enlighten me. A step by step description including a demo file would be helpful in order to figure out what's going wrong.

[Ton Frederiks]

I tried the same, but I don't see any automatically closed paths.

Maybe share a screen recording?

[Kurt Gold]

Based on your screenshot it looks as if your closed path is an appearance (possibly a pathfinder effect at the layer level) or a compound shape.

To verify that, you could share a sample Illustrator file with the object shown in your screenshot.

[Ghoul Fool]

There's an idea. Here's a very minimal copy of the file with just the open and closed versions. 

[Monika Gause]

If you want to share a file, please use the forum's web interface. Change the file extension to .pdf.