He's kinda right, a file format meant for printing fixed size pages will inevitably suffer from some impedance mismatch when automatically converting it to a re

He's kinda right, a file format meant for printing fixed size pages will inevitably suffer from some impedance mismatch when automatically converting it to a relatively simple document format meant for screens. But I disagree with the claim that it isn't HTML. It sure isn't pretty but a if you define HTML as the input that the HTML parser of today's browsers can handle (rather than the HTML spec) it is perfectly fine.