Mobile printer controller with high fidelity preview and print job manipulation

A mobile computer for processing documents, comprising:

• a transceiver for communicating over a network;
• a processor configured with processor-executable instructions to perform operations comprising:
• receiving, at the mobile computer, a message from a print queue indicating that a print job has been received;
• sending a pause command to the print queue and a request for an intermediate document associated with the print job received by the print queue, in response to receiving the message;
• receiving, at a mobile computer from the print queue, the intermediate document in a format that is independent of a computing platform or operating system, and wherein the intermediate document is based on an original document that is dependent on one or more of a computing platform and an operating system of a remote computing device;
• displaying a preview of the intermediate document via a software application configured to accept edits to the intermediate document;
• determining whether edits to the preview of the intermediate document are received, and in response to determining that edits are received:
• updating the preview of the intermediate document with the edits to produce an output document in a format that is independent of a computing platform and operating system;
• syncing the output document with the document that is dependent on one or more of a computing platform and an operating system of the remote computing device, stored on one or more remote data stores;
• and
• sending the output document to the print queue.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon processor-executable software instructions configured to cause a processor to perform operations for processing documents on a mobile computer, the operations comprising:

• receiving, at the mobile computer, a message from a print queue indicating that a print job has been received;
• sending a pause command to the print queue and a request for an intermediate document associated with the print job received by the print queue, in response to receiving the message;
• receiving, at a mobile computer from the print queue, the intermediate document in a format that is independent of a computing platform or operating system, and wherein the intermediate document is based on an original document that is dependent on one or more of a computing platform and an operating system of a remote computing device;
• displaying a preview of the intermediate document via a software application configured to accept edits to the intermediate document;
• determining whether edits to the preview of the intermediate document are received, and in response to determining that edits are received:
• updating the preview of the intermediate document with the edits to produce an output document in a format that is independent of a computing platform and operating system;
• syncing the output document with the document that is dependent on one or more of a computing platform and an operating system of the remote computing device, stored on one or more remote data stores;
• and
• sending the output document to the print queue.