Aperture Captions to iWeb

I want to use iWeb to create a photo page. When I import photos from an Aperture Album (via Media Browser), the iWeb captions are the file name (version name) and not the captions created in Aperture.
Is there a way to get the Aperture Caption to show as the Caption in iWeb?
I've seen some discussion of this, but it's unclear if anyone has solved this. Seems like a no brainer; well it should happen by default--a caption is a caption. This isn't 1984. But I'm probably missing something simple.
Message was edited by: MtnBiker

Getting the captions from iPhoto is the same problem. But there has been an Applescript created for iPhoto that copies the Comments to the Title field for importing to iWeb and then the title can be changed back to the file name using iPhoto.
You might be able to edit the script to have it work with Aperture. You can get it from this Mac OS X Hints post: Descriptions to Title in iPhoto

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activate
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Slightly disappointed in the dearth of good web page
creating options in Aperture (you'd think they'd be
better, no?). Can I get iWeb and create web pages
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try
tell application "iPhoto"
activate
copy (my selected_images()) to these_images
if these_images is false then error "Please select the images to include in the summary."
set the image_count to the count of these_images
repeat with i from 1 to the image_count
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set the title to the comment
end tell
end repeat
end tell
on error error_message number error_number
tell application "iPhoto"
activate
if the error_number is not -128 then
display dialog error_message buttons {"OK"} default button 1
end if
end tell
end try
on selected_images()
tell application "iPhoto"
try
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set these_items to the selection
-- check for single album selected
if the class of item 1 of these_items is album then error
-- return the list of selected photos
return these_items
on error
return false
end try
end tell
end selected_images
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