Panorama software with aperture?

Have several photos that I would like to make into a parorama print....what is the best plug-in to use for this?

I can give another "thumbs up" to Hugin.  However, there's no plug-in as far as I know. 
This is my workflow:
I export photos in lossless format (TIFFs) to a specific directory
I run Hugin and create the pano from the exported TIFFs
In the process, I save a Hugin project (describing the photos that comprise the pano, and the options I have chosen in creating the pano) and the resulting picture file to the same directory.
Import the resulting picture file into Aperture, into the same project as the original photos.
Stack the pano as the stack pick, with the other photos.  It's easy to do this since Hugin ensures the timestamp of the pano is the same as one of the originals.
Remove the exported TIFFS, but keep the Hugin project.  In this way, I can recreate pano without taking up space with the exported photos.  I.e., I can just export them again and re-run the pano.
nathan

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