Copy-and-paste from Help on TCustomRichView.LoadRTF: Appends contents of RTF (Rich Text Format) file FileName to the document.
If you need to replace current contents with the contents of this file, call Clear method before loading.
Maybe this is all you need?
A note: an empty RichView[Edit] always contains one empty item (an so do table cells). This is likely what you see as a "blank line".
You can also try experimenting with TCustomRichViewEdit.InsertRTFFromFileEd() - the editing-style method.
Yes, I understand about using the clear method. My problem is that I am appending to an existing file already loaded into the editor. I am trying to add a pagebreak before appending the file. This is where I end up with the extra item.
LoadRTF must not add empty line.
But initially, each editor contains one empty line, so calling LoadRTF without Clear will result empty line + RTF doc.