Writing keywords to jpg masters

I'm thinking of using Aperture to manage my image files which are all jpg or psd. Right now I'm using the demo version. Once I've assigned keywords to a file how can I write them to the IPTC keyword field in the master file without having to export that file?
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Ha, ha, ha, John! The gig is up. Caught me didn't you. I've been playing with the demo trying to figure out a couple of things in order to answer someone else's questions about keywords and writing keywords back to the original/master file. No matter how much I play with Aperture, I still like iVMP much, much better.
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