What is the difference between good and bad fonts?

Here are some basic rules:

promises given with TrueType (equally good output on screen and in print), and OpenType is really better than TrueType. There are lots of TT fonts with printing issues, but you can find some really good ones as well. However, scribus will do a font check on startup, so you can be quite sure not to use "bad" fonts because they are ignored by scribus.
 * Use of Adope/PS fonts will usually result in better output(print), but mostly will look ugly on screen. OpenType tries to finally keep the

umlauts? Good fonts usually have all or most of them (for that reason many of the fonts shipped with SuSE are quite useless, unless you only write English texts).
 * Quality can also be measured by the number of glyphs provided. Do you need to write Greek or Hebrew? Do you need German quotation marks,

"fake" italics and bold letters as most people are used to from their word processor (that's, of course, not true for artistic or some ancient fonts).
 * A good font family will offer you at least 3 varieties for regular, italic and bold fonts, because in real typesetting you don't use the


 * There are some more hints here: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=setup&page=fonts2