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Kobo offered PDF for some books. I’ve been using them since the days of when they were called Shortcovers and amassed exactly one book with a PDF option. The publisher also makes the ePub you buy. If it’s crappy and you don’t like it that’s on them. They could’ve also included the print font in the book if they wanted to(under publisher default).
If you know what font they use in the paper/pdf version then on Kobo eReaders at least you can easily add that font and use it to read and adjust the margins and line spacing to be similar. Personally I don’t really like reading PDFs because I can’t easily adjust the size and font of text. That’s the whole point of epub is to be reflowable so it can just as easily be read on a phone with a 5” screen as a 6” eReader or 12” tablet. PDF is not. Reading a PDF on a 5” phone sucks and is abysmal on a 6” eReader. Sure the text can be formated a bit better but it’s no use if you can’t read the thing.
All Calibre’s print to PDF does btw is print out the ePub to a PDF file. If you like how it rendered that PDF then you are perfectly fine with how Calibre renders ePubs. If you really hate the way the Kobo app renders something then remove the DRM from the book and read it in alternate reader with a rendering you like such as Calibre.
Also Tsukushi Mincho “TsukuMin” is not a Kobo proprietary font. It’s just a font for typesetting Japanese mainly so you never really see it included in English or European language focused programs.
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