How to place the pager for a view in page.tpl.php?
The following steps might help you to extract the pager out of a view conatiner with a help of small css fix,

1 : Override the view template file 
I have created a view called extract pager and created a custom tpl for the same views-view--extract-pagertpl.php

2 : The data-members for pager will be available in the above tpl file copy and place the code into to a sepearte div container

&lt;div class="pager-extract"&gt;
  &lt;?php if ($pager): ?&gt;
    &lt;?php print $pager; ?&gt;
  &lt;?php endif; ?&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;     


3 : Rescan the template files in the views and save the view.

4 : The above steps will help you to bring out the pager up to the view content block, use few css styles to theme your pager as per your requirements.