I have Pages on the Mac and the iPad (I thinks that James does as well) and they work fine together. I use iCloud and file sharing for iOS to move my documents back and forth.
You can read about file sharing here.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4094
If you are running Mountain Lion on the Mac it will even be easier than it is for me since I am still running Lion. I can even access my Pages documents on my old work iMac running Tiger via the Safari web browser.
Sometimes I wonder why I bother posting....😁 I couldn't talk that fast in a phone call!
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