About Insert Blank Page
Some documents are one empty page away from being right: a chapter that should open on a right-hand page, a sheet that needs a clean back, a gap where a printed insert will go later. This tool places that nothing in exactly the right spot. Each run adds between 1 and 10 blank pages, and you decide where they go:
- At the start, ahead of the current first page.
- At the end, behind the last page.
- After a page number that you type in.
- After every page, which spaces the whole document out with blanks.
An inserted page doesn’t arrive in a fixed paper size. It borrows the dimensions of a neighbouring page, so a blank added to an A4 report is A4 and one placed beside a landscape chart is landscape. Printed or viewed as a spread, the file keeps a consistent look.
Your existing pages are not touched. They keep their content, resolution and order, apart from the gap you open between them, and since an empty page has nothing to draw, the file grows only marginally.
How to use Insert Blank Page
- Choose the PDFAdd the document that needs extra pages. If it asks for a password when you open it in a viewer, remove that first with Unlock PDF.
- Set the position and countPick the start, the end, after a specific page, or after every page, and enter how many blanks to add, from 1 to 10. Page numbers count from the first page of the file, not from any numbering printed on the pages.
- Insert and saveApply the change, download the longer PDF, and scroll to the spot you chose to confirm the blank landed where you meant before printing or sending it.
When people use it
Chapters that open on a right-hand page
In a double-sided print, odd pages are fronts and sit on the right of an open binder. If chapter 2 would begin on page 14, one blank after page 13 pushes it to page 15, which prints on a front.
A handout with room for notes
Add one blank after every page of a slide deck and print it double-sided. Each slide gets a sheet to itself, with an empty reverse side for notes taken during the talk.
Padding a booklet to a multiple of four
A folded booklet needs a page count that divides by four. A 14-page concert program gets two blank pages at the end, making 16, so the print shop doesn’t have to guess where the gaps belong.
Which position fits the job
| Position | Effect on the other pages | Typical reason |
|---|---|---|
| At the start | Every page moves back by the number of blanks added | A placeholder where a separately printed cover will go |
| At the end | All original pages keep their positions | Padding a booklet, or an empty back cover |
| After page N | Only the pages after N move back | Starting a section on a fresh sheet; leaving room for an insert or fold-out |
| After every page | With one blank each, the page count doubles | One-sided output on a printer that only prints double-sided; space for notes |
Blank pages, page numbers and double-sided printing
When the document will also get page numbers, the order of the two steps matters. Insert first and number afterwards if the blanks should count as pages: Add page numbers stamps every page it is given, so the empty ones are numbered too. Number first and insert afterwards if the blanks should stay unnumbered and invisible to the count.
For duplex printing, keep one rule in mind: in the finished PDF, odd page numbers print on the front of a sheet and even numbers on the back. A blank inserted anywhere moves every later page from front to back or back to front, so check the sections after the insertion point as well as the one you were fixing.
Inserting a page that isn’t empty
This tool only adds blank pages. To put a page from another document into your PDF, such as a signed form or a scanned receipt, combine the two files with Merge PDF, then drag the new page into position with Rearrange PDF. A photo has to become a PDF first, which JPG to PDF takes care of.
The opposite job, stripping empty pages out of a scan, is handled by Remove blank pages, which detects them for you.
Ten pages per run, and other limits
- Document properties. There is no setting here for the title, author or other properties; check or change them on the result with Edit PDF metadata.
- Ten per run, one position. Each run inserts at most 10 pages at the position you picked. Need more, or blanks in two separate places? Run the tool again on the downloaded file.
- Mixed page sizes. In a document whose pages differ in size, a blank copies a neighbour, so check that it matches the section you intended.
- Locked or very large files. Encrypted PDFs must be opened up with Unlock PDF first, and a scan of several hundred megabytes is a job for a computer rather than a phone.
The insertion happens in your browser tab, and your PDF is never uploaded to pd00 or anywhere else; the privacy page shows how to verify it.