title: Itext: Show paragraph at absolute position
body: <p>Is there a way to position a paragraph absolutely, in a way that also works when a list is added to the paragraph?</p>
  
  <p>A google search shows that I should use ColumnText, but I can't get that to work if there is a list in the paragraph. It simply shows the list items next to each other on the same linie. Here is my test program:</p>
  
  <pre><code>        PdfWriter writer=PdfWriter.getInstance(document,new FileOutputStream("/tmp/output.pdf"));
          document.open();
          ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(writer.getDirectContent());
          ct.setSimpleColumn(0,0,300,300);
          Paragraph p=new Paragraph();
          List list=new List();
          list.add(new ListItem("First item"));
          list.add(new ListItem("second item"));
          list.add(new ListItem("third item"));
          p.add(list);
          ct.addElement(p);
          ct.go();
          document.close();
          writer.close();
  </code></pre>