BigPicture 2026
For Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress
The Professional Picture Manager.
Browse, Search, Relink, Rename and Manage Picture Links with Ease.
BigPicture. Trusted by designers and creative professionals for 25 years.
Since 2001, BigPicture has been helping creatives stay in control of their projects —
from the early days of QuarkXPress to its evolution as a powerful companion for Adobe InDesign.
Over the years, it has become the industry’s reference tool for managing linked images with clarity and confidence.
With BigPicture 2026, the entire experience has been reimagined: a refined interface, modern macOS 26 support, and
smarter tools that make searching, relinking, renaming, and managing images faster and more intuitive than ever.
Search for missing links or any file.
Relink in one step.
The all-new Search engine in BigPicture 2026 works seamlessly behind the scenes. Fast, intelligent, and effortless.
You’ll see results appear almost instantly, with fuzzy matches and customizable filters that make finding any link simple and intuitive.
Swap, copy, move, and collect. Complete control over your links.
With BigPicture 2026, every link operation is faster and easier.
You can swap, copy, move, or collect linked files, individually or in batches,
while keeping your document perfectly up to date.
Rename links instantly.
Only with BigPicture.
BigPicture 2026 is the only tool that lets you rename linked images in batch, while keeping your document perfectly synchronized.
You can remove characters, replace text with custom strings, or define smart rules — for example, if the image name contains _proof then rename with _final.
Preview every change before applying it and rename dozens of files in seconds, safely and precisely.
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BigPicture 2026 for InDesign 2026 / BigPicture 2026 for QuarkXPress 2026 Release Notes
Version 17.1 for InDesign (January 5, 2026)
• New Presets for Search, Swap, Link, and Rename tools: You can now create presets that store all settings for each tool, allowing you to apply complex configurations instantly. Presets can be invoked at any time, reverted to their saved state, synchronized with local changes, or easily added and removed as your workflow evolves.
• New Rename option: Ignore File Extensions: When enabled, Rename operations consider only the base file name, leaving the file extension unchanged. This provides greater flexibility and avoids unintended changes when batch-renaming linked images.
• Enhanced Rename Rules behavior: The Apply Rules feature now includes a new preference to reset serial numbers to the Start value for each page. When enabled, serial numbering restarts on every page using the value defined in the New Name section.
• Numerous fixes and refinements throughout: BigPicture 17.1 includes many improvements and bug fixes, several of them based directly on customer feedback. We actively listen to user suggestions and continuously refine BigPicture to make it more reliable and efficient.
Version 17.0 for InDesign (November 5, 2025) and Version 17.5 for QuarkXPress (January 5, 2026)
• Completely redesigned, with two tool modes: Browse and Manage.
• Faster and more efficient, with fully modernized code.
• Manage mode handles all searching, swapping, relinking, and renaming.
• Browse mode adds filtering by status, page, or custom text.
• Manage mode introduces a new picture list with filtering tools (status, page) and sorting options.
• Exporting lists and opening with an external application have been relocated to Browse mode.
• Replaced AppleScript communication with modern JavaScript integration for Adobe InDesign.
• Searching now supports fuzzy matching, finding words that are similar even if not exact.
• New search filters: limit to images only, filter by modification date, ignore case, and ignore diacritical marks.
• Added the ability to search in iCloud Drive, the document folder, or any custom folder.
• New Swap options: swap by name prefix or suffix, ignore case and diacriticals, or swap with images in the document folder.
• New Copy/Move/Collect options: exclude images in specific folders or by file extension.
• New Rename options: replace text, ignore case, or ignore diacritical marks.
• QuarkXPress only: New Presets for Search, Swap, Link and Rename actions.
• Relinking now supports updating only selected images in the Manage picture list.
• In Browse mode, the left panel can now be collapsed.
• Full compatibility with macOS 26 Tahoe.
• Numerous fixes and improvements throughout.
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