You need the tax file in order to transfer 2023 information in to a 2024 return. A pdf will not transfer very much at all except for some personal information like name, address, SSN, etc.
How to transfer last year’s return? https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1900883
https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/2262857-when-transferring-a-tax-file-what-information-carries-over...
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