The “basics” are all there...

• Paths can be closed or open
• Paths can be filled with colour, gradients, patterns, ...
• Attributes can control line style, dash, joining, miter, ...
• Shortcuts for rectangles, arcs, circles, splines, ...
• Images can be included
• Clipping, masking
• Separate text element with tons of attributes
• Everything can be transformed (rotated, skewed, translated, etc)
• All the usual operations of 2D graphics are available