Ah, okay. Now I see what you mean by the extra space. Well when ID converts to fixed layout, it does crazy manipulations to text size and scaling and space between words and parts of words to try to exactly match the text in InDesign/PDF.  My new educated guess 😉 is that there's something funky going on with the markup InDesign is creating for this one line.    To cut to the chase: If the problem is only happening in these subheads, no matter which Open Type fonts you use, then there is probably something finicky in the formatting (the styling) that InDesign is choking on. Use a test one-page doc that you've copied/pasted the bad boy text to, and experiment exporting to FXL that test doc. I would try applying [Basic Paragraph] and for Char Style, [None] to one of them, then if that exports okay, change the font to Calibri Bold and export that, and if that's okay change the paragraphs to centered, etc.    You may have applied some sort of tracking of non-standard letter/word spacing, for example, that ID is having trouble with. -------   I made a test file with just your title and subhead set in Calibri Bold, centered.  Look at this mess of html markup that InDesign created with just this 2-line bit of text when exporting to FXL. ("Live" tet is colored black)     This is one of the reasons to avoid using FXL export with text-heavy books. If you're having trouble with images in your reflowable, then learn more about getting them to do what you want. Many many ebooks have lots of images, I've created reflowable epubs with 500+ screenshots (a how-to book on Excel) and 1000+ hi res images and colored sidebars (a photo tour of Tuscany).    AM ... View more

What Bob said. The point of the previews being saved with the file is to view them in Adobe Bridge in its Preview panel. Nothing new was added/changed when CC (the subscription model) was released. The good news is that you can just keep Bridge open all the time, and use it as an alternative or in addition to Windows Explorer (or the Mac Finder). I think the fact that neither OS can show previews of INDD files is a limitation of the OS; they're private file formats, unlike TIFF, for example. ... View more

When you first place an image by clicking the loaded cursor onto the page, it comes in a full size, automatically surrounded by the blue box (the non-printing image frame). Don't resize that frame to cover the whole A4 page (which is what I assume you're doing, just dragging any handle on the image to resize the frame). Instead, if you want the image to take up more or less area on the page, hold down Command-Option (on Windows: Control-Alt) before and while you click and drag on a corner handle to scale both the image and its non-printing frame, releasing the modifiers after you release the mouse button.   OR select the image with the Selection tool and enter a scaling percentage in the Scale field in the Properties panel or Control bar.   OR resize the frame itself as you were doing, then with it still selected, choose a Frame Fitting option from the Object > Fitting menu to automatically scale the image itself to fit the frame.     You place multiple images on the page in this same way, arranging them overlapping or side-by-side. NOTE: When you choose File > Place, be sure the "Replace Selected Object" checkbox is turned off/empty.   AM    ... View more

The only thing you can change as a default for *any style* are the things you change with no document open. So after you close any open INDD files, switch to the Type tool and choose Bullets & Numbering from the Control Panel menu. There you'll find that you change the bullet character (• or * for example) and the numbering style (1,2,3 or i,ii,iii for example), the separator character to use (something other than the default Tab character) and if there's a character style you want to apply to either, you can choose (and create that).     But you can't change indents and positions that "would work with any paragraph style" because those are based on an existing set of paragraph attributes. You'll see those fields are dimmed.     Now, *if* you base all your paragraph styles in your documents on a parent style that is present in all your new documents --- the Basic Paragraph style, or maybe your own that you've created and added no docs open --- then you could edit the Bullets and Numbering panel in that parent style, and that would be the default for all paragraph styles you create.   I don't recommend changing the Basic Paragraph settings, because that could lead to aggravation and confusion down the road if you ever need to copy/paste text from one doc to another. Better to create a new paragraph style with no docs open, maybe called "Base" or "BN Base" and put your desired  bullets and numbering defaults in there. Save your changes to the application defaults by restarting InDesign.   Then just make sure for all new docs you create from then on, whenever you create a new paragraph style, you changed the "based on" style from the default of the same style to the "Base" one.    AM     ... View more