Big Sur and iOS 14 are said to eliminate the textured paper background from Apple Notes. I actually like it
I’d like to try using that background in Scrivener, maybe after tinting it a bit grayer.
Old versions of macOS Notes retained their backgrounds as paper.tiff inside the app’s Contents>Resources, which you used to be able to see (and grab) when opening the app’s Package contents. But my copy on Mojave no longer has a single tiff file (nor could some sniffer apps like Artwork Extractor find it.) It instead has some code which apparently translates into embedding the paper background.
Also in the old days I’d back up iOS apps to my Mac and be able to open the .ipa files and similarly root around and pull images and sounds. I can’t do that now.
Aside from simple making a large Mac/Notes page and screenshotting it (which doesn’t work well), does anyone have an idea how to extract the original, high quality background image? Or is my Google-fu failing me and is there something downloadable somewhere on the net?