iText - Strange column- / page changing behaviour with ColumnText

Question

I am quite new to iText and trying to accomplish the following:

• read a list of text files from local hd
• arrange the texts of the files in a 2-column layou

Answer 1

Solved! As soon as ColumnText indicates a table will not fit the current column I reinitialize ct with a new instance of ColumnText and add the table again.

In other words: Each instance of ColumnText is exactly dealing one column of my document.

if (ColumnText.hasMoreText(status) || mediaPoolSwitch) {
  column = Math.abs(column - 1);
  if (mediaPoolSwitch) {
      currentMediaPool = mediapool;
      column = 0;
  }
  if (column == 0) {
      document.newPage();
      writeTitle(writer.getDirectContent(), mediapool.getName());
  }
  ct = new ColumnText(writer.getDirectContent());
  ct.addElement(table);
  ct.setSimpleColumn(
      COLUMNS_COORDS[column][0], COLUMNS_COORDS[column][1],
      COLUMNS_COORDS[column][2], COLUMNS_COORDS[column][3]);
  yLine = COLUMNS_COORDS[column][3];
  LOG.debug("correcting yLine to: " + yLine);
} else {
  ct.addElement(table);
}
ct.setYLine(yLine);
ct.go();