I think your question is based on a false assumption. Could you please describe a more specific example of what you regard as less flexible", because my experience is that in general, most Adobe applications offer more and more Save as and Export formats and options...

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Adobe InDesign can export PNG&; JPEGs, various PDF incarnations, two flavours of ePubs (Reflowable and FXL), RTF (derived from text threads, and useful for MS Word and many other word processors), IDML for backwards compatibility, legacy Flash and SWF, and last but not least HTML/XML (structured content, try the IN5 plugin for more options).
If that isn't enough, I don't know what else you need...

Adobe Illustrator eats just about everything and spews out anything you like. If there's a file format you're missing, then you probably haven't checked it out well enough. Almost every vector and bitmap image format is supported. Of course, Illustrator can handle more than certain (simpler) formats can handle, so your mileage will vary. Note: there are various plugins for broader compatibility with CAD tools.

Adobe Photoshop – I refuse to summarise all the file formats it can Open, Save and Export to. You're definitely overlooking something in your assumption...

Adobe XD outputs all kinds of design materials: imagery in all popular formats (JPG, PNG, SVG) and sizes (even in batches), PDFs of whole artboards, and CSS values upon Publish for Development. The XD application has an API and its file structure is open. So thanks to the API, XD works very well with several workflow platforms like Trello, Zeppelin, Slack, etc. Although XD is intentionally designed not to produce a single line of code, a few plugins can extract some basic HTML/CSS constructions from your artboards.

Adobe Spark is intended to be an easy end-user application, aimed at quickly designing all kinds of media (ready-to-use social media posts, simple videos, and one-pagers). So it's expected not to hook up to other design applications.

I don't know anything about Adobe Captivate.

Please familiarise yourself a little more with the associated workflows, because in many situations the integration with other tools might require a little more effort and expertise than just an export command.


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