OK I also tried with the latest snapshot and font choice works now on Win 7 (laptop) and some newer win version in office computer (I did not bother to check win version ;) ).

Sven: thanks, i actually had forgotten about it (it's been a while since i printed in pdf). Mostly for (postgrad) students convenience as they like to experiment with things like that plus I was stuck with Arial Unicode MS 8 for quite a while now.