Preview: PDF Form Text Boxes Shift

I am putting together a PDF form using Adobe Acrobat Pro and testing it in Preview.
In Preview, the check boxes and radio buttons work fine, but when I click on or tab to a text box, the text box shifts downward and becomes somewhat wider than the box I drew. Multi-line text boxes become wider and shift upward.
Why does this happen? Is there a way to keep the text boxes in place?

Same here. The boxes are shifted, to varying degrees, further down than in Acrobat Reader. This is a shame because I love Preview.
Anyone?

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