Red Wind:
Yup.... Just pick the closest or most convenient Sheriff who is willing to non-resident licenses. I'm not happy, but at least it's a short ride for me.
They claim that it's to standardize the "credit card" type license (v.s. just a piece of paper), and get photos and prints on file and photos on the card, too. About all they really have to do is put "see OH license" on the thing. Meantime OH could send prints and photos (via their electronic systems) to PA for file purposes.
If your OH license gets farkled (taken, expired, etc.), your PA license should go away, too, at some point, but there may be no mechanism in place to enforce that. If there is, the "automatic" thing I mentioned in the last paragraph ought to be possible.
What makes this so painful, I think, is that the Constitution really doesn't require this, nor does it permit the loopy regulatory structures involved. Proving you're over 18 (i.e., old enough to buy the thing) should be sufficient....
Regards,