About the Author
Mohsin Shafique Hijazee started his programming adventure by teaching himself C, and later C++, mostly with the Win 32 API and MFC. Later, he worked with Visual Basic to develop an invoicing application for local distributors. In the meantime, .NET came along and Mohsin happened to be working with C# and Windows Forms. All of this was around desktop applications, and all of this happened during his days at university.
Very few people have had a chance to work with fonts, and that's exactly what Mohsin happened to do as his first job—developing OpenType fonts for complex right to left calligraphic styles such as Nastaleeq. He developed two different fonts, one based on characters and joining rules, and the other one contained more ...
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