Single Stroke font ( like font for CNC / engraving )

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You can automate the (re-) opening of paths in Ai. Ai path items have a closed property. You could control that with a little JavaScript.

Does it have to be Ai/InD? There used to be a special engraving software that would take OTFs without subroutines and with a different suffix, and it would leave out the closepath statement when interpreting the paths. Should be mentioned somewhere in the depths of the forum archives.

Edit: Here is AppleScript code that opens every selected path in Adobe Illustrator. Feel free to adapt it to your needs. I guess that something similar is possible in InDesign:

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
	tell document 1 -- frontmost document
		set numberOfPaths to count path items
		repeat with i from 1 to numberOfPaths
			set thisPathItem to path item i
			if selected of thisPathItem then
				set closed of thisPathItem to false
			end if
		end repeat
	end tell
end tell
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