# Ability to show text actor in itkwidgets.view()

**URL:** https://discourse.itk.org/t/ability-to-show-text-actor-in-itkwidgets-view/5431
**Category:** Beginner Questions
**Tags:** python
**Created:** [October 20, 2022, 3:18pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/ability-to-show-text-actor-in-itkwidgets-view/5431 "2022-10-20T15:18:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Kevin\_Sweeney](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/kevin_sweeney/32/2947_2.png) [@Kevin\_Sweeney](https://discourse.itk.org/u/Kevin_Sweeney)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2022, 3:18pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/ability-to-show-text-actor-in-itkwidgets-view/5431/1 "2022-10-20T15:18:49Z")

</div>

I am just looking to confirm that it is not possible to add `BillboardTextActor3D` to viewer geometries. I have tried a few things, but as the warning stipulates:

`The 'geometries' trait of a Viewer instance expected A data structure for rendering geometry in vtk.js consisting of points, verts (vertices), lines, polys (polygons), triangle strips, point data, and cell data.`

Thanks

[https://kitware.github.io/vtk-examples/site/Python/Visualization/BillboardTextActor3D/](https://kitware.github.io/vtk-examples/site/Python/Visualization/BillboardTextActor3D/)