iptcparse() and iptcembed()

Hi I'm still having trouble reading iptcinfo from images using iptcparse(); Has anyone ever used the (undocumented) iptcembed() function ? Has anyone ever documented it ? :-) Be pleased to know. The same behaviour appeared for different files, file formats, servers and phpversions. Where am I going wrong ? The manual examples this: ================== $size = GetImageSize("iptc.jpg",&$info); $iptc = iptcparse($info["APP13"]); var_dump($iptc); ================== What I get in return is - after GetImageSize("blah",&$info) $info["APP13"] is string(12726) "Photoshop 3.0.ÿÙþâ..ó§ÿÙþâ ... (this should, I think, have been an array, not a string) - after $test = iptcparse($info["APP13"]) $test is bool(false) (this should, I think, have been an IPTC block, which is, I think, some complex array) thanks upfront *-pike-*