Maximize Window in Preview

I know this has been beaten to death, but if I want to view a PDF at maximum size there doesn't appear to be a way to do it (other than manually dragging the corner.) The justification for the non-maximizing behavior of the green button seems to be "you don't really want to do that."
I've seen the discussions about this get philosophical: Windows users only use one app at a time, while the Mac is more about multitasking. That's cool, but sometimes I have a schematic that I want to view on the whole screen. Shouldn't there be some way to do that?
If there is a way to do that (without downloading a third party hack) I'll retract all of my criticism.

Welcome to the Discussions!
In Leopard, pdf viewing behavior is as expected using Preview. However, the behavior for scanned or bitmap-type images (jpeg, png) is different. In any case, by clicking on the zoom buttons and the green button you should quickly be able to view it at any magnification while filling the screen. Are you using Leopard or Tiger?
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