Symbol Outline and Pin layering

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First post here, thanks in advance for any help!

I am new to KiCAD, and only using a subset of its features; mainly interacting with the schematic editor to make a wiring diagram.

On a schematic, it appears that the symbol outline is layered on top of any pins and their respective labels.

This has become problematic because I have used the image converter to make custom symbols, many of which have writing on them that is considered symbol outline and thus is covering important labels on my symbol.

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Is there a way to switch the way they are layered in the schematic? I also noticed that this layering issue is not present in the symbol editor.

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Update to this: When I exported my schematic to a .pdf file, the pin labels were once again on top of the symbols like I desired. So it appears that this is only an issue in the schematic editor window. Possible bug? But otherwise a non-issue.

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Not a bug, but a current technical limitation. There is currently no “layer-concept” in the schematic editor, so displaying overlapping objects is not really working.

gitlab issue trackig this: Support customizable Z order within a layer with GAL (#11934) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab