Expand Stroke makes closed object

Expanding a stroke used to expand just the line. Now, it
expands the
line and makes an object with by closing the path. How can I
get the old
behavior back with FHMX?
TIA

Thanks for the reply. I don't know what happened. I have used
FH enough
to know how the expand stroke tool works. Yesterday, I had a
simple
curved path. When I tried to expand the stroke, FH made
"bowl", a
compound closed path object by connecting the ends of the
stroke. I drew
some more lines with the same results. I worked around this
to finish
the job. Now, this morning the expand stroke is working
correctly. It is
just making the path a simple closed object. Must have been
sunspots or
bad karma.
dp
Judy Arndt wrote:
> D. Plank wrote:
>
>
>>Expanding a stroke used to expand just the line. Now,
it expands the
>>line and makes an object with by closing the path.
How can I get the old
>>behavior back with FHMX?
>
>
> I can't remember FH's Expand Stroke Xtra ever producing
two open paths.
>
> Select the butt end cap in the Expand Stroke dialog.
Option-click the end
> paths to subselect and delete them.
>
> There is an intermittent bug in FHMX, though. Sometimes
instead of giving
> the expanded object a fill the same color as the
previous stroke, it will
> apply the previous stroke and no fill. Is that what
you're asking about?
>
> Judy Arndt
>

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