johniText wrote:
> Hello thanks first.
> 
> Could you please tell me how you found the " box size in the annotation 
> array is [104.25,13.87] and in the appearance is [50,25] ",

For instance with http://www.1t3xt.com/products/rups.php
Or you can open the PDF in a text editor and look for the
field objects and their appearance streams.
Or you can use the methods described in chapter 15 and 18
of "iText in Action".

> and more importantly
> to me is,  how to correctly set the box size so that the text is not
> stretched ?

Recreate the appearance.

> I checked the iText Java API,  it seems AcroFields.setField() is used to set
> field value, not field properties such as font. 
> Thanks a lot, iText is sort of confusing to me at this stage of learning.
> :-) 

Reading chapter 16 should take away the confusion.
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