Abstract: A method and system for viewing a document containing at least one page and at least one image, the document being located on a server computer, including sending by a client computer a page display request to the server computer creating by the server computer a layout page containing a reference to stored image data, transmitting the layout page from the server computer to the client computer, sending an image data request to a remote computer according to the reference to stored image data, and transmitting requested image data from the remote computer to the client computer in response to the image data request.