diff --git a/docs/templates/layout.jade b/docs/templates/layout.jade
index dff6ebd44..5f5b3e1a3 100644
--- a/docs/templates/layout.jade
+++ b/docs/templates/layout.jade
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ html(lang='en')
     .container
       footer
         p ©Mozilla and individual contributors
-        :markdown
+        :markdown-it
           PDF.js is licensed under [Apache](https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/blob/master/LICENSE),
           documentation is licensed under [CC BY-SA 2.5](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/)
 
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index c6ca51648..66e83c010 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1424,7 +1424,6 @@
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@@ -2801,8 +2800,7 @@
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@@ -5496,6 +5494,14 @@
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       }
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+      "version": "2.1.0",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/jstransformer-markdown-it/-/jstransformer-markdown-it-2.1.0.tgz",
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+      "requires": {
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+      }
+    },
     "keypress": {
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       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/keypress/-/keypress-0.1.0.tgz",
@@ -5585,6 +5591,14 @@
         "resolve": "^1.1.7"
       }
     },
+    "linkify-it": {
+      "version": "2.0.3",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/linkify-it/-/linkify-it-2.0.3.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha1-2UpGSPmxwXnWT6lykSaL22zpQ08=",
+      "requires": {
+        "uc.micro": "^1.0.1"
+      }
+    },
     "load-json-file": {
       "version": "2.0.0",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/load-json-file/-/load-json-file-2.0.0.tgz",
@@ -5896,6 +5910,18 @@
         "object-visit": "^1.0.0"
       }
     },
+    "markdown-it": {
+      "version": "8.4.2",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/markdown-it/-/markdown-it-8.4.2.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-GcRz3AWTqSUphY3vsUqQSFMbgR38a4Lh3GWlHRh/7MRwz8mcu9n2IO7HOh+bXHrR9kOPDl5RNCaEsrneb+xhHQ==",
+      "requires": {
+        "argparse": "^1.0.7",
+        "entities": "~1.1.1",
+        "linkify-it": "^2.0.0",
+        "mdurl": "^1.0.1",
+        "uc.micro": "^1.0.5"
+      }
+    },
     "marked": {
       "version": "0.3.19",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/marked/-/marked-0.3.19.tgz",
@@ -5918,6 +5944,11 @@
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       }
     },
+    "mdurl": {
+      "version": "1.0.1",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/mdurl/-/mdurl-1.0.1.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha1-/oWy7HWlkDfyrf7BAP1sYBdhFS4="
+    },
     "mem": {
       "version": "1.1.0",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/mem/-/mem-1.1.0.tgz",
@@ -10851,8 +10882,7 @@
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       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/sprintf-js/-/sprintf-js-1.0.3.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha1-BOaSb2YolTVPPdAVIDYzuFcpfiw=",
-      "dev": true
+      "integrity": "sha1-BOaSb2YolTVPPdAVIDYzuFcpfiw="
     },
     "ssri": {
       "version": "5.3.0",
@@ -11328,6 +11358,11 @@
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       }
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+    "uc.micro": {
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/uc.micro/-/uc.micro-1.0.5.tgz",
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+    },
     "uglify-es": {
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diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 897d57d0b..fe4ccea32 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
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     "jasmine-core": "^3.3.0",
     "jsdoc": "^3.5.5",
+    "jstransformer-markdown-it": "^2.1.0",
     "merge-stream": "^1.0.1",
     "mkdirp": "^0.5.1",
     "node-ensure": "^0.0.0",