Patent ID: 6874131

Claim:
A method for on-line accessing of client-selected scaled versions of one particular original document containing at least one page containing content other than an image and at least one high resolution raster graphics image in non-scalable PDF format, the one particular original document being located on a server computer, the method comprising the operations of: sending by a client computer a page access request to the server computer; creating by a rendition tool at the server computer a scalable document from an original document file located on the server computer, the original document file representing the one particular original document, the scalable viewable document containing the content other than the image and not containing the high resolution raster graphics image in non-scalable PDF format and containing a reference to stored image data; storing the high resolution raster graphics image in non-scalable format as the stored image data, the stored image data representing the one particular original document; transmitting the scalable viewable document from the server computer to the client computer; sending by the client computer an image data request to the server computer to access a client-selected scaled version of the stored image data representing the one particular original document; and transmitting the requested client-selected scaled version of the stored image data from the server computer to the client computer in response to the image data request.