Rich Text & Images & Web Service Provider?

We have a single Notes database that contains documents with the core content held in RTF fields. This can include, text formatting, attachments, images - all the usual RTF content. We need to be able to allow some other systems to access these documents and publish them within their own environments. For various reasons doing this straight over http is not an option - we have to push the data to the other systems and allow them to publish.

Can this be done by creating a web service provider? If so, how will things like the images and attachments be handled in a web service? Are there any other options to push these documents for publication in the other systems retaining the majority of their formatting.

The documents are originally published via a Notes client.

Thanks.