You'll have to relink from the newly created project file (pln), unless you could find a way to make the link relative instead of absolute. I'm not sure how to do that.
An alternative way to do this (as described elsewhere in this forum) could be to put everything including the pdf on an independent worksheet in your tpl and embed the pdf. That would give only one file to copy, and no links to update.
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