tdf#79679 vcl: dashed lines show as solid lines when importing EMF files

Backported fix to 5.0.

Issue is a regression in commit 09c722873b2d378d2d155f5f1dd7d8f3fb2012e9.
(EMF/WMF: fix rendering of pen styles (dash, dot, dashdot, dashdotdot).

I've looked at how the latest version of Word on the Mac works, and it
turns out that the spacings for the PenStyle enumerations in the LogPen
objects for all the create pen EMF records are as follows:

* PS_DOT           - ■ □ ■ □ ■ □ ■ □ ■ □ ■
* PS_DASHDOT       - ■ ■ ■ □ ■ □ ■ ■ ■ □ ■
* PS_DASHDOTDOT    - ■ ■ ■ □ ■ □ ■ □ ■ ■ ■

(where ■ is the actual filled in area, and □ is the space between the
filled in areas)

In other words, each dash fills in the space of three dots, and there
is the one dot worth of empty space between the dashes and dots. Each
"dot" has a width and height equal to the width specified in the pen.

So basically, we seem to be arbitrarily setting the dot, dash and
distance lengths arbitrarily, which were reasonable guesses but tended
to produce very odd lines at different zoom levels.

Change-Id: Ie8b5fa396e4fb0f480cb3594c8129a59f472c1b8
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/22886
Reviewed-by: Chris Sherlock <chris.sherlock79@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Chris Sherlock <chris.sherlock79@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/22928
Tested-by: Jenkins <ci@libreoffice.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomaž Vajngerl <quikee@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Lohmaier <lohmaier+LibreOffice@googlemail.com>
(cherry picked from commit e21606f3cce557e5eb84b2e7747c173edf526a55)
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README.md

A quick overview of the LibreOffice code structure.

Overview

You can develop for LibreOffice in one of two ways, one recommended and one much less so. First the somewhat less recommended way: it is possible to use the SDK to develop an extension, for which you can read the API docs here and here. This re-uses the (extremely generic) UNO APIs that are also used by macro scripting in StarBasic.

The best way to add a generally useful feature to LibreOffice is to work on the code base however. Overall this way makes it easier to compile and build your code, it avoids any arbitrary limitations of our scripting APIs, and in general is far more simple and intuitive - if you are a reasonably able C++ programmer.

The important bits of code

Each module should have a README file inside it which has some degree of documentation for that module; patches are most welcome to improve those. We have those turned into a web page here:

http://docs.libreoffice.org/

However, there are two hundred modules, many of them of only peripheral interest for a specialist audience. So - where is the good stuff, the code that is most useful. Here is a quick overview of the most important ones:

ModuleDescription
sal/this provides a simple System Abstraction Layer
tools/this provides basic internal types: 'Rectangle', 'Color' etc.
vcl/this is the widget toolkit library and one rendering abstraction
frameworkUNO framework, responsible for building toolbars, menus, status bars, and the chrome around the document using widgets from VCL, and XML descriptions from /uiconfig/ files
sfx2/legacy core framework used by Writer/Calc/Draw: document model / load/save / signals for actions etc.
svx/drawing model related helper code, including much of Draw/Impress

Then applications

ModuleDescription
desktop/this is where the 'main' for the application lives, init / bootstrap. the name dates back to an ancient StarOffice that also drew a desktop
sw/Writer
sc/Calc
sd/Draw / Impress

There are several other libraries that are helpful from a graphical perspective:

ModuleDescription
basebmp/enables a VCL compatible rendering API to render to bitmaps, as used for LibreOffice Online, Android, iOS, etc.
basegfx/algorithms and data-types for graphics as used in the canvas
canvas/new (UNO) canvas rendering model with various backends
cppcanvas/C++ helper classes for using the UNO canvas
drawinglayer/View code to render drawable objects and break them down into primitives we can render more easily.

Finding out more

Beyond this, you can read the README files, send us patches, ask on the mailing list libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org (no subscription required) or poke people on IRC #libreoffice-dev on irc.freenode.net - we're a friendly and generally helpful mob. We know the code can be hard to get into at first, and so there are no silly questions.