Transferring images out of Aperture library

I recently acquired Aperture and plan to import my existing library into the Aperture library. My existing library consists of a lot of .nefs and almost as many jpgs. Once my existing library is imported I plan to let Aperture manage and backup the images in a vault, and delete my old library file structure (after waiting long enough to be confident everything is safe).
My question: is it possible to pull an old jpg out of the Aperture library and insert it into another program without opening Aperture? For example, if I want to put an image in a greeting card, is there any way I can go into the Aperture library through the Finder to locate and transfer the image?
Thanks!
Steve

Yes, but it isn't elegant.
Right click on the Aperture Library and select "Show package contents"
Pick the Project and again, right click and select "Show package contents"
Then, out of the list of folders, one per image, try and figure out what image you need (or Spotlight if you know the filename).
There again, launching Aperture and exporting the image isn't that slow after all.
Possible to do it with Automator/Applescript as well I believe. Unsure there is a script out there but quite likely.

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