PDF stuck in my Camera Roll!

I didn’t even know such a thing was possible, but it is. Here’s how it happened.
In his column yesterday, Andy Ihnatko said that it was easy to move PDFs into iBooks: “if the Mail app sees a PDF as a file attachment, it can send the file directly into the iBooks library for permanent storage.” Sounds cool, so I attached a PDF to an email and sent it to myself.
I opened the email on my phone, and the PDF opened inline rather than as an attachment. No matter, I did a tap-and-hold on the image, and a moment later there were two buttons: Save Image, or Copy. Hmm, that’s not what I was expecting. No matter, I tapped “Save Image.”
Big mistake.
Now I have said PDF in my Photos -> Camera Roll (the icon is a black square), but of course I can’t view it there. I can’t delete it from there (using the Select Photos button), since the PDF doesn’t show up when I click on it. And it doesn’t appear in iPhoto when I sync because… well, it’s a PDF. But iPhoto does launch on sync now, so it knows something is there.
If I save a new image to my camera roll, it shows up as expected, right next to the black-iconed PDF. I can interact with the new image perfectly, so this is clearly a problem with the PDF file itself, and the fact that it’s stuck where it shouldn’t be.
So is there any way for me to purge my Camera Roll?
This would seem to be a major problem with Mail, since it shouldn’t have given me the option to save a PDF into my Camera Roll to begin with.
Help?

Did you already try to reset the phone by holding the sleep and home button for about 10sec, until the Apple logo comes back again? You will not lose data by resetting, but it can cure some glitches after installing new software or apps.
If this does not work, try to copy the photos to your computer and set up the phone as new device after that:
iOS: Importing personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer
How to back up your data and set up as a new device

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Here are the facts:
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In addition, albums on my iPhone have synced and even random albums with 1 photo in them have appeared on my iPad.
I cannot delete these photos or albums becasue it says "you cannot delete photos imported from another device" or something like that.
It's driving me nuts because my camera roll is a mess and I cannot organize it by moving or deleting the photos.
I'll say again, these photos are not just in my photostream. They have imported themselves into the camera roll and albums and cannot be deleted.
Info and links are appreciated.

Ok, so I went back into iTunes and clicked sync (becasue it was unclicked), then unclicked it again and clicked apply. It told me that it would delete all the synced photos so I clicked "ok" and continued.
No such luck, the photos remain.
Maybe I can clarify a few things. By camera roll I actually meant "Photos".
For example, when you open the photo app on the iPad, there are tabs at the top labeled "Photos", "Photostream", "Albums", etc.
The photos in question that cannot be deleted or moved are in the "Photos" section.
I have used a camera conenction kit once but that was last month and this problem existed long before.
UPDATE:
A little background first. In Photos, under the Photos tab, I click "Edit" and click photos until I select a photo that I CAN delete as well as a photo I CANNOT delete. I click "Delete (1)" and the following message appears:
"Only items direclty imported to iPad can be deleted"
-End-
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Hello lohmann8,
Thank you for providing so much detail about the issue you are experiencing with emailing photos from the Camera Roll.
The first thing I recommend is quitting and relaunching the applications on your iPhone:
Double-click the Home button.
Swipe left or right until you have located the app you wish to close.
Swipe the app up to close it.
You can find the full article here:
iOS: Force an app to close
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
If you are still seeing the same issue after quitting and relaunching the Photos and Camera app, I recommend restarting your phone and then resetting if it's still not working:
Restarting your device
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red "slide to power off" slider appears, and then slide the slider.
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
Note: Reset your device only if you are unable to restart it.
Resetting your device
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button together for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
You can find the full article here:
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
iTunes: Restoring iOS software
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
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skinb wrote:
Did you solve the problem? I am a new iphone user. Mac is less intuitive than wished.
You posted in the iPad forum instead of the iPhone forum. To get answers to your question, post in the proper forum. See https://discussions.apple.com/welcome
You tagged onto an older post. If you want an answer to your specific question, you need to create a new post. By creating a new post, you will receive emails when helpers post responses.
 Cheers, Tom

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