I frequently like to save news articles from the web for later perusal, since so many seem to disappear, as we all know. Up until now, I've used two methods for doing this. One, of course, is to print the page to a PDF. The upside to this is that all the images and formatting is preserved, but you lose hyperlink. The other, which I use for primarily text only pages, is to copy the text into TextEdit. Upside? Smaller files than PDF. Downside? Still no hyperlinks.
So, I just got my copy of iWork, and I decided I'd give Pages a shot at this. I called up an article, went to the "Print Friendly Version," and copied the text and images into a blank document. Not only did it preserve the text formatting, with a little image placement tweaking, but the hyperlinks were still present and functional! Where TextEdit just treated them as styled text, and the same for PDF export, Pages correctly recognized them as hyperlinks, and kept them intact. Now, how cool is that?
[robg adds: In 10.3 at least, TextEdit can retain hyperlinks in pasted text -- just make sure the document is set to RTF and not plain text. Still, this is an interesting use for Pages, as it gives you more control over the image placement of the page.]
Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050206165716139