Illustrator CC - Path Length Stats

Does anyone know if there is an alternative to the Path Length and Path Area plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator from Telegraphics?
I used these plug-ins in older versions of Illustrator. They're extremely useful in sign design. I could get statistics like the lengths of neon tube paths in neon sign designs or tool path lengths for parts to be routed on a routing table. This is very important stuff for bidding jobs. You need to know how much material you're going to use. The path length function will give you a good idea how much time a router will need to chew through a sheet of aluminum or acrylic (also good to know for big jobs).
AFAIK, Adobe Illustrator does not have any built-in function like this. CorelDRAW doesn't. Strangely, FlexiSign Pro & Flexi Cloud doesn't have any functions like that either.
Telegraphics' path length and path area plug-ins don't work at all in newer versions of Illustrator (they haven't worked for me in CS6 or CC). They don't work reliably in Illustrator CS5, which I have running on my personal notebook computer.
Right now we're having to get by with running Illustrator CS2 on an old machine running plain vanilla XP in order to use the Telegraphics plug-ins. The old XP PC is driving a vinyl cutter, which is fine, but that 9 year old PC isn't going to live forever.
I talked with someone from Telegraphics via e-mail months ago, asking about possible updates to the path area & path length plug-ins. I didn't get a definite answer on when or if any new versions of those plug ins would be developed.

You can view the length of a path in the sloppily tagged-on grab-bag Document Info palette. From its flyout menu, turn on Selection Only and Objects. Select a path and the palette will list its length, number of anchors, and other stuff.
In Illustrator's Javascript model, Area and Length are properties of the PathItem object, so you can access them with a trivial amount of scripting, so long as you're talking about simple closed paths in regards to area. The Area property does not automatically arbitrate for the "negative" area of compound paths (determined by winding direction), or of self-crossing paths, so you'd have to do some additional coding to accommodate that.
JET

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