P: Stroke automatically closes on layer with multiple open subpaths

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Hi, guys. You're the company that makes Illustrator so I was quite shocked you got this wrong in Photoshop CS6 strokes.

If I don't close a path, I don't want a stroke drawn between the two open ends, yet it draws one. Fill: sure, I can turn that off.

But stroke: no.

Please consider fixing this. It's really hard to create basic vector elements when the stroke can't handle something so basic.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

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

[jayfaulkner]

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...

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

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!

[Franck Payen]

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 ?

[michalhrabovec]

hello

callin from the far future year 2022

we don't have many flying cars yet but we still have this bug ...

probably just shouting in vain 

but please fix this

[Michael_CCO_SW]

This bug was reported 10 years ago?? C'mon Adobe!

[Sergey Kritskiy]

it will be 12 years in a month! Should we clebrate? I can bring a cake