Can I burn file name information into a picture?

Try the free BorderFX plug-in:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/aperture/apertureborderfx.html?cmp, available for download directly from the Aperture -> plug-in menu.

This plug-in offers many options to place IPTC and EXIF annotations onto the border of an image.

After installing the edit plug-in, you use by selecting the image to be edited in its project (not album!) and choosing "Photo-> Edit with Plug-in" -> BorderFX"

Regards

Léonie

Al, do you need a very high image quality, or do you need the annotated images for web representation with lower resolution? If you can do with a medium quality, you could use the build in "Web Page" or "Smart Web Page" to create annotated html images for thousands of images at once.

• Select your images
• New -> Webpage (or Smart Web Page)
• Set a Theme, select Metadata presets
• Export Web Pages (you will get html overviews and single, annotated Slideshow images, called large-1.html, large-2.html, ...)

You still would have to find a way to convert html to jpeg or another image format.

The annotation can be anything you can reveal in metadata presets in the Inspector.

Here is an example: The metadata presets are selected using the little badge icon. To add the filename is easy, for the path you will need to add the path to a metadata tag using "batch change" - e.g. the comment tag.