Dear Don,

please see my expirience with metaPost and Ventrian so far.

metapost 1.1.7

DNN 4.8
Ventrian 0.5.77

Installation is running fine, only one issue. Live Writer can not load the templates from the server. Don't know if this is a issue of metapost or live writer. But so far has no impact on posting.

Posting a Article is easy.

But 2 major issues. I always have to publish a article 2 times. in the first, only summary is posted. But twice. first in the summary section and a duplicate in the body.
After publishing a second time, all is looking good. - NOW WORKS WITHOUT PROBLEM

Regarding the Image and Featured Problem. Image is not published as a featured image. Even i check 'featured' and giving it a ai alt tag. Neither on the first publishing than in the second one. - WORKS

Regards

Marc