public PdfDocument addAbsolutePosition(PdfElement element) {
        try {
            if (!element.setPosition(pdfwriter.getDirectContent(), document
                    .getPageSize().getWidth(), document.getPageSize()
                    .getHeight())) {
                document.add(element.getPdfElement());
            }

        } catch (DocumentException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return this;
    }