How do I move the 'save as' dialog out of my way in Preview?

I have a stack of pdf files to rename, for which I need to read the contents. The filenames are composed from the authors, title and date which are inside the documents. The trouble is that I can't save them without the 'save as' dialog occluding the document, which I need to see in order to fish out the authors, title and date.
How can I move the 'save as' dialog off the document view?
Is there another way around this problem?
I'm using Snow Leopard's version of Preview, in case it matters.

Yes, that makes it pretty much impossible if you need to grab text from various places first and assemble it into the file name you want.
I can copy/paste text out of a PDF with the Adobe Reader into a Save As dialogue box, but then run into your same issue with Preview. I can't move back to the document to get another snippet of text.

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