iWork '09 tip
This has annoyed me for so long and until recently I was not able to find the solution anywhere online, that’s why I’m posting this here.
If you make a document with Pages ’09, and you have images (or other media) in the document, and you want to save the image, it is not immediately obvious how to do this. This is because inexplicably and contrary to most of the rest of Mac OS X, you cannot just drag the media out from the document into Finder. I.e., drag and drop out of a Pages / Keynote document is not supported.
However there is a workaround! Click the media, go to the inspector, go to the metrics tab (ruler icon), click on the object’s icon under “file info”, and drag that out of the document into Finder.
Thanks to “RobR” for pointing this out: original link.
(Actually there is another workaround: one could in theory rename the document filename to .zip extension, unzip it, open the package with Finder, navigate to the images folder, try to recognise which file you want, and drag it out into Finder — but I’m discounting this because it’s tedious and you need to close the document before doing this.)